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Developing children as Good Citizen

Dear Parents Upbringing of children is very challenging task. It is not based on instructions. Parents and elders have a very big role in this journey. Parents need to demonstrate right behavior to the children.  A very simple things such as getting water for drinking on their own and not asking to be served. Elders need to demonstrate to child that they also take the water on their own and not demand/ask. The child observes this behavior and works as per this.  When the child grows up you will notice that child does his work on his own. A simple habit of wrapping bed sheet from one's bed every morning is important, this develops self discipline. All the family members if do the work at home on their own in front of child, child learns this as a standard practice and does this work routinely. No special efforts are needed but elders, parents need to demonstrate the actions which they want the child to develop. Do not expect perfection in work as outcome but concentrate on...

Online schooling during COVID 19 pandemic for preschool children, is it correct?

Impact of Covid 19 infection is seen everywhere. Everything is under lock down. Social distancing and hand hygiene is the common mantra for making oneself safe from the infection. Schools, coaching classes, colleges are all closed. When they will open , how these will be run is all a big question and how to handle? Lock down started from March 2020 and now in June slowly some establishments have opened and society has started slowly to come back to normal. Now the monsoon season is round the corner and chances of viral infection, cold, cough is very high for the young children of age group 2 to 6 years. With all the infection threat around, is it right to have physical schooling in operation. Safety of children is very important. I am of view that for the year 2020-2021 preschool should be operated online rather than physical school. It is not possible to keep social distancing among children as they will keep on moving and playing. Having said that online schooling is the...